Noun: nightingale
| Singular | nightingale |
| Plural | nightingales |
Sample Sentences
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Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet neere day: / It was the Nightingale, and not the Larke, / That pier'ſt the fearefull hollow of thine eare [c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v], page 68, column 2:]
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Some admired the external beauties of the objects they beheld, like the nightingale in love with the roſe. [1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page v:]
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The oaks around were the home of a tribe of nightingales. [1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter V, in The Last Man. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:]
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And David's Lips are lock't; but in divine
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High piping Péhlevi, with "Wine! Wine! Wine!
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Red Wine!" — the Nightingale cries to the Rose
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That yellow Cheek of her's to'incarnadine. [1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 2:]
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The air, too, was heavy with perfume, and a nightingale, high in the heavens, gave out a cheery song of welcome. [1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XXII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 222:]
Nouns inflected like nightingale
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English nyghtyngale, nightingale, niȝtingale, alteration (with intrusive n) of nyghtgale, nightegale, from Old English nihtegala, nihtegale (“nightingale; night-raven”, literally “night-singer”), from Proto-West Germanic *nahtigalā (“nightingale”), equivalent to a compound of night + gale. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Noachtegoal (“nightingale”), Dutch nachtegaal (“nightingale”), German Low German Nachtigall (“nightingale”), German Nachtigall (“nightingale”), Danish nattergal (“thrush nightingale”), Swedish näktergal (“nightingale”), Icelandic næturgali (“nightingale”). See: Middle English Nouns '
nyghtyngale', Middle English Nouns '
nyghtyngale', Old English Nouns '
nihtegala', Dutch Nouns '
nachtegaal', German Nouns '
Nachtigall', Danish Nouns '
nattergal', Swedish Nouns '
näktergal', Icelandic Nouns '
næturgali'.
Verbs referencing "nightingale"
German Nouns
Nachtigall.